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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Love alone could waken love.
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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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